Can someone help me to a working CONT-configuration?

What I have: A working system with hosts grouped according to function, separated in hosts.cfg by page and include directives.

I would like to add cont tests to a few hosts. If I put them in the same include file where the server is first defined, it works. But the displayed table gets quite wide. So I put those cont test in an additional file (see below #web-tests). When I do this, the definitions from the file of the first host-definitions and those from the web-tests file get combined, leading to the same wide display. Besides that after a short while the dots for the cont definitions and the http column turn purple.

I tried different combinations of NOCOLUMNS, GROUP(-)ONLY, NOCONN and changing the "0.0.0.0" in the web-tests file to the IP as already defined:: no changes.

Bonus question: The "Drucker" test for "linux-dmcl" shows nowhere. This is

copied from a message from 2006/8, where there was a reply "works like a charm" ...

verschiedene Rechner

10.45.96.115 linux-dmcl #

AixUnix-server

10.45.64.33 lscopy02 #

Windows_Steinfurt:

10.45.64.61 SSGIS01 # #web-tests 0.0.0.0 lscopy02 # cont=Zabix; http://lscopy02.kreis-steinfurt.lokal/zabbix;"zabbix" 0.0.0.0 SSGIS01 # cont=Altlasten; http://SSGIS01.kreis-steinfurt.lokal/ArcGIS/services/Maps/Altlasten/MapServe... ;"www.esri.com" cont=Abgrabungen; http://SSGIS01.kreis-steinfurt.lokal/ArcGIS/services/Maps/Abgrabungen/MapSer... ;"www.esri.com" cont=Aufschuettungen; http://SSGIS01.kreis-steinfurt.lokal/ArcGIS/services/Maps/Aufschuettungen/Ma... ;"www.esri.com" 0.0.0.0 linux-dmcl # cont=Drucker; http://linux-dmcl.kreis-steinfurt.lokal:631/printers;"Drucker"

Any tipps?

Thanks hjb

In <OF84B0188B.8C796088-ONC125780F.004A4B8E-C125780F.004E3BCF at kreis-steinfurt.de> "Hermann-Josef Beckers" <hj.beckers at kreis-steinfurt.de> writes:

Can someone help me to a working CONT-configuration?

What I have: A working system with hosts grouped according to function, separated in hosts.cfg by page and include directives.

I would like to add cont tests to a few hosts. If I put them in the same include file where the server is first defined, it works. But the displayed table gets quite wide. So I put those cont test in an additional file

Bad idea. You can have hosts defined multiple times in the hosts.cfg (bb-hosts) file, but you MUST keep all of the network tests in one place - all of the others should be "0.0.0.0 hostname # noconn".

You should have heeded the warning you get when trying to split them across multiple locations: xymonnet will complain

"Host foo appears twice in hosts.cfg! This may cause strange results"

and indeed, that is what you got.

So begin by putting all of the http/cont/whatever tests in one place. To be certain that is the definition Xymon uses, you can add the keyword "prefer" to this entry.

Then to control what columns show up where, use "group-only" and/or "group-except". E.g. I use this to have some special web-columns show up on one line, and the other statuses on another line:

group-only frontpage|loginpage Web portal 10.0.0.1 host1 # prefer
cont=frontpage;http://foo/index.html;Welcome
cont=loginpage;http://foo/login.jsp;Password
ssh ... other hosts ... group-except frontpage|loginpage Webservers 0.0.0.0 host1 # noconn

The first group shows only the "frontpage" and "loginpage" statuses. The second entry shows all EXCEPT those two, i.e. the data from the "ssh" test, and data sent by the client running on that host.

Regards, Henrik